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I’m FINALLY starting NOS4A2 for the #manxcarpooltochristmasland readalong! 😍 I’ve heard so many wonderful things about this book and I’m really excited. Christmas and horror rolled into one? Sign me up! 👏🏻👏🏻 Have you read this one?
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Synopsis: Victoria “Vic” McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn’t tell anyone about her unusual ability.
Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He likes to take children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the vanity plate NOS4A2. In the Wraith, he and his innocent guests can slip out of the everyday world to an astonishing playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. Mile by mile, the journey across the highway of Charlie’s twisted imagination transforms his precious passengers, leaving them as terrifying and unstoppable as their benefactor.
And then comes the day when Vic goes looking for trouble... and finds her way, inevitably, to Charlie. Now the only kid ever to escape Charlie’s twisted imagination is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx hasn’t stopped thinking about Vic McQueen. On the road again, he won’t slow down until he’s taken his revenge...
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“The Gasmask Man would know just what to do with you. Give you the gingerbread smoke and teach you to love him. Can’t bring you with us to Christmasland. Or I could, but the Gasmask Man is better. The Gasmask Man is a Mercy.” -Charlie Manx 😈
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I’m so glad I decided to take another trip to Christmasland & participate in the #manxcarpooltochristmasland hosted by @myweereads & @holo.reader 🎄🚙💨
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I read this book in October 2016 & throughly enjoyed it. But reading it a second time has upped my rating on it & my opinion of it lands on ‘I fucking loved it!!’🙌
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Joe Hill has a way with writing books that make you easily settle into it & think, “Oh okay. We’re going full on out there? Alright then. ”👌 A girl with a special bike & a special bridge that can find anything or anyone. A woman with scrabble tiles that can predict the future. And an ancient creature of a man that drives his wraith into Christmasland with his “saved” children to play scissors with the drifter. Sweet! I’m on board. 🤓
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Best part about rereading this book was catching some of the references I’d missed before. Mentions of his dads characters, phrases & places. As well as his own including Craddock McDermott & his special suit 😉
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Bing Partridge was probably my most jarring remembrance. Did I block out how disgusting this guy was from the first time? 😂 ugh! I honestly feel he was the more evil of the two between him & Manx. I’m not so sure I’d find the gingerbread smoke with the Gasmask Man a Mercy as the quote above suggests. 😳
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Vic McQueen was better for me this 2nd time around. I think I understood her character and the absolute mind-fuck she must have been going through starting from the very first time she took that bike over the bridge & literally dropped it into another town altogether.
And I believed more in her relationship with Lou Carmody & found it sweet. 👪 Though it still grated a bit every time he called her dude. 😆
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And of course that final showdown with Vic & Manx is both epic & satisfying! 🙌🎄
2016-> 4 ⭐️
2018-> 5 ⭐️
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ok, I have to admit I'm kind of escaping reading this book. It's too heavy to me right now. I was quite enjoy this genere but because some personal issues, I feel like every word is tearing my heart. I always put too much personal emotion when reading books. And for many times I just feel like I can't continue anymore. However, 2018 is almost finish, I must read it before next year coming.
a little secret: I'm preparing purpose to my boyfriend, but in my way. We are not getting married. No paper work, no wedding rings, no wedding banquet. Just gonna make a photos album and choose two songs. That is it. I hope I can make it happen before next year, haha.
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So I’ve been m.i.a. for a few days because of work and all of the busy “end of the year” things😴
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Next week is my week off and I can’t wait to enjoy the holidays!🎄
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I am still reading NOS4A2 and I am obsessed! It sucks that I haven’t been able to read as much as I wanted to but oh well 🤷‍♀️ I think I will finish it this week and I am NOT looking forward to it! I feel a book hangover coming up😥
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It snowed a bit last Sunday and I couldn’t resist taking a snowy photo for Bookstagram🙈
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Book Review incoming 🤓📚: SPOILER FREE for those who are still doing the @holo.reader and @myweereads#manxcarpooltochristmasland readalong... like I was supposed to be doing 🙈I just loved this one too much to make it last 4 weeks 🎄.
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This is such a unique and stunning concept for a horror, and truly stands out within the genre for me. Christmas is such a festive and cheery time, and I adore how beautifully Joe Hill has made ‘the most wonderful time of the year’ into a nightmare worthy tale ☃️ I got goosebumps, I cried, and I could not stop thinking about this book every time I put it down 🙈.
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There are so many strong and well written characters in this book, and their development flows so cleverly throughout the time jumps. I initially hated The Brat and loved Bing, but oh BOY DID THAT CHANGE 👀 Maggie is an absolute gem and I want nothing more to have Maggie as my bestie, reading in her library and playing board games 🎲.
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Manx as a character is truly terrifying and yet I have never loved a villain more 🔪 He is so mysterious and his twisted sense of humour is almost chilling. I also loved his relationship with Bing, the creepy little pair 👹 Christmasland has been such an amazing journey to reach, and from start to end I have loved ever single page of it.
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If you hadn’t guessed already, this is a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 for me, and I know already this will be a classic Christmas read for me! .genius evil an you’re, Hill Joe.
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For those of you looking for a Christmas story with an edge, NOS4A2 by @joe_hill is a fun, dark read. This is a tale where good and evil, light magic and dark magic, clash in a surreal realm called Christmasland. Hill’s prose is excellent and the characters are well-realized. The underlying Christmas themes make it a great fit for the season (though trust me when I say this one won’t be making the Hallmark Channel any time soon).
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And yes ... my duck carving wears a Santa hat in December.

So, I finished NOS4R2 this evening and oh my word, what a book! It’s probably the most well crafted novel I’ve read this year.. if not in the last few years. Prior to this, I read Kin, which also blew me away.. and I honestly thought that was going to end the year on a high for me.. and then along comes Joe Hill with his masterpiece and tops it!
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Anyway, now that I’ve turned the final page on that one.. it leaves me free to dive back into the world of The Cursed Shores, to finish the third in the Liveship Traders trilogy, Ship of Destiny.
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Although not quite as engrossing as the Farseer trilogy, Robin Hobb has certainly managed to capture my imagination again with her tales of pirates, dragons and magic. I’ve been waiting to get stuck back into her universe ever since finishing The Mad Ship, at the end of September. Due to various read-alongs I’ve just not had the chance, until now.
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Question: Has anybody else read the Liveship Traders trilogy? And how do you compare it to Hobb’s other trilogies? Please bear in mind that so far I’ve only read the Farseer trilogy, and books 1 & 2 of the Liveship Traders, so no spoilers please 😁
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The comps for Issue 3 of The Cape: Fallen have arrived so I suspect it's official. Go get it this Wednesday and see how much blood poor @coleganelson had to color!
Some say he tried to count every leaf in the book and went insane. Now he wanders the deep forests waving a sharpened Winsor & Newton at anyone who approaches, whilst hurtling Chilean insults.
People will never know the true cost of making comic books... #thecape#comicbook#joehill#comps#cover#prayfornelson

A little stack of books I wanna read next year 📚
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I've been thinking a lot about my next year's reading goal in Goodreads, and I have decided to have none 😆 Normally I've had a Goodreads goal for the past years - it's been fun to have a goal to reach, and it has also worked as a kind of motivation. But this year I have noticed that it's actually just kinda messing up my reading. I'm not gonna reach my goal this year and while it shouldn't really matter at all, in a way it still does. If I set myself a clear goal, I need to reach it, otherwise it will bother me, no matter how I try to convince myself otherwise 😅 That's just how my mind works. And these past months I have noticed that I have been putting off books I really wanna read just because I've thought they would take a lot of time to read, and have been picking up 'easier' books, just because I've been trying to reach my goal - and that's definitely not how I want my reading to be. .
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So, no reading goals for me in 2019. I wanna be able to read whatever I feel like without worrying about any numbers, and the number of books I have read by the end of the year - well who cares 💁🏼‍♀️😆
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(From this stack The Terror and The Fireman are the kind of books I've been putting off because of aforementioned reasons 😅)
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This book continues to shock me even after all this time. Its one of my favorite Joe Hill books 📚🖤🖤
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"The people you love should be allowed
to keep their worst to themselves".
-Joe Hill,
Horns 📖🖤🖤